Educational distribution among adults who say their holy scripture is not the word of God, but written by men by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who say their holy scripture is not the word of God, but written by men by educational group

% of adults who say their holy scripture is not the word of God, but written by men who have completed…

Religious traditionHigh school or lessSome collegeCollegePost-graduate degreeSample size
Buddhist16%32%31%21%201
Catholic38%28%20%14%2,060
Evangelical Protestant39%39%14%8%635
Hindu6%17%28%49%119
Historically Black Protestant42%41%10%7%177
Jewish13%18%33%37%511
Mainline Protestant27%26%27%20%1,826
Unaffiliated (religious "nones")30%34%22%14%5,701
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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